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Overview

Call Number: SC0268

Creator:
Castañeda, Alfredo

Title: Alfredo Castaneda papers

Dates: 1972-1980

Physical Description:
11 Linear feet

Summary: These papers pertain to Castaneda's teaching career at Stanford and include correspondence, student papers, reports, publication
files, and course materials. Subjects include his professional and teaching activities, his students, bilingual education,
and Mexican Americans. The papers also include minutes from seminars held at the Boys Town for the Study of Youth Development
at Stanford, 1975-76 (subsequently known as the Stanford Center for the Study of Youth Development).

Language(s): The materials are in English.

Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Green Library

557 Escondido Mall

Stanford, CA 94305-6064

Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu

Phone: (650) 725-1022

URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc

Administrative Information

Provenance

Transferred by School of Education, 1981.

Information about Access

Partially restricted: confidential student files not open.

Ownership & Copyright

All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.

Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.

Cite As

Alfredo Castaneda Papers (SC0268). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.

Biographical/Historical Sketch

Alfredo Castaneda, a nationally prominent expert in multicultural education, was professor of education at Stanford from 1972
until his death in 1981. He was the first Chicano appointed full professor at Stanford. Castaneda received his a.b. from San
Francisco State in 1948 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Ohio State in 1951 and 1952. Prior to his appointment at Stanford, he
taught at several universities including the University of Toronto, Queens College of the City University of New York, the
University of Texas, and the University of California at Riverside, where he had been chairman of Mexican- American Studies.

Description of the Collection

These papers pertain to Castaneda's teaching career at Stanford and include correspondence, student papers, reports, publication
files, and course materials. Subjects include his professional and teaching activities, his students, bilingual education,
and Mexican Americans. The papers also include minutes from seminars held at the Boys Town for the Study of Youth Development
at Stanford, 1975-76 (subsequently known as the Stanford Center for the Study of Youth Development).

Some student files contained materials of a sensitive nature. These have been separated from the rest of the collection in
Box 8 and are not open to researchers.